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The traditional approach to cybersecurity has been to use a prevention-centric strategy focused on blocking attacks. While prevention-centric approaches do stop many threats, many of today’s advanced and motivated threat actors are circumventing these defences with creative, stealthy, targeted, and persistent attacks that often go undetected for significant periods of time.

The purpose of this white paper is to show you how you can successfully build a SOC, even with limited resources. The paper first explains the basics of the Cyber Attack Lifecycle and the need to address it through the Threat Lifecycle Management framework. Next, the paper explains the basics of SOCs, providing details of what SOCs mean in terms of people, processes, and technology. Finally, the paper walks you through a methodology for building a SOC with limited resources, focusing on tactics to make your rollout smooth and successful. After reading this paper, you should be ready to start planning your own SOC.

Garnering critical IT insight helps organizations and individuals make the right decisions to better serve customers, partners, regulatory bodies and internal employees and answer many important business challenges. This whitepaper describes LogLogic's philosophy and evolution of IT Data Management.

An IANS Custom Report that details how and why SIEM tools today need to more intuitive and combine multiple functionality to help IT professionals detect and defend against today's more sophisticated threats.

Gartner's 2012 SIEM Magic Quadrant report that positions LogRhythm as a leader against other technologies designed to collect, store, analyze and report on log data for regulatory compliance and forensics.

THE TIME HAS come for CEOs and Boards to take personal responsibility for improving their companies’ cyber security. Global payment systems, private customer data, critical control systems, and core intellectual property are all at risk today. As cyber criminals step up their game, government regulators get more involved, litigators and courts wade in deeper, and the public learns more about cyber risks, corporate leaders will have to step up accordingly.

The need for early detection of targeted attacks and data breaches is driving the expansion of new and existing SIEM deployments. Advanced users are looking to augment SIEM with advanced profiling and analytics.

In this webinar Randy Franklin Smith, Windows Security Subject Matter Expert, and Erik Ingleby, Product Manager at LogRhythm, discuss the lessons learned from Target, Niemen Marcus, Sony and other breaches. By analyzing the available information about these recent data breaches, from the perspective of detection, the two have assembled an interesting list of security monitoring lessons and ideas. The list includes tips on how to eliminate double false positives, a number of generalized monitoring scenarios, as well as acknowledges the incredible power of monitoring for new executables running for the first time on your environment. If you are concerned about data breaches and you're involved in SIEM and other security monitoring, this is the webinar for you.

In this webinar, three cyber security veterans will discuss today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape and LogRhythm’s new Security Intelligence Maturity Model™ (SIMM). They will explore how the SIMM provides organizations with a framework to plan for continuous reduction in their mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) to high-impact threats.

Security threats continue to be more sophisticated and advanced with each day, with the majority often going completely undetected. • Organizations are usually scrambling to keep up and implement new security controls to protect themselves, which adds a new layer of complexity. • With the rise of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and insider attacks, it becomes extremely difficult for security staff to detect all the risks. • Many IT and IT Security staff are already stretched thin by keeping track of many different security technologies that already exist.

IT environments have become much more vulnerable as enterprise mobility, cloud services and “bring-your-own-everything” have broken down the defensible perimeter and added layers of complexity to securing the enterprise. At the same time, the nature of cyber threats has changed dramatically. Threat actors are well organized and well funded, and many of them are known to be supported by nation states. They have sophisticated technical skills which allow these actors to create custom malware for very specific targets, and they are relentless in pursuit of their objectives. Moreover, almost anyone with a malicious intent can purchase malware and rent botnets on the Dark Web, lowering the bar for criminal entities, nation states, and terrorists to use cyber as a weapon of choice towards their intended purpose.

Security information and event management technologies vary widely in their focus and functionalities, with vendors offering divergent security monitoring visions. This research helps IT security managers align their needs with one of the three most common use cases to choose the best SIEM solution.

Among the countless changes in Windows 10 Microsoft has provided IT organizations more visibility into auditable actions on Windows 10 machines and the resulting events in the Security Log. Understanding these enhancements is important because we need every edge we can get to detect endpoint intrusions. Threat actors use a sophisticated mix of phishing, social engineering, and malware to attempt to compromise any user within an organization. A seemingly benign order request sent to a salesperson or a benefits summary to someone in HR can contain attachments infected with malware. Once such payloads are in, the goal is to determine how to leverage current users and other accounts on the compromised machine to access valuable and sensitive data, as well as how to spread out within the organization and repeat the process.

The first two installments of the Cyber-threat defense report began the process of looking beyond major breaches and the never ending evolution of cyber-threats to better understand what IT security teams are doing to defend against them.

Over the past three years, ransomware has jumped into the spotlight of the cyber threat landscape. Kaspersky Lab reports that in 2015, its solutions detected ransomware on more than 50,000 computers in corporate networks—double the figure for 2014. Even at this rate of detection, Kaspersky admits that the real number of incidents is several times higher than what has been detected and reported.1 In just the first quarter of 2016, $209 million was paid out to cyber criminals using ransomware. The FBI estimates that losses to be incurred in 2016 due to ransomware will top $1 billion.2 Once again, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

It feels as if these folks have been around forever. They started life as a SIEM with a heavy emphasis on log management. Today they are all that plus a solid suite of next-generation attributes. They have many of the attributes of next-gen SIEMs: artificial intelligence, sophisticated log correlation, sophisticated pattern recognition and behavioral analysis. Their strength is, as it always has been, log management. But “log management” has taken on an entirely new dimension with this product. As is absolutely necessary today, it has the intelligence to analyze, correlate and make sense of huge amounts of data.

SIEM deployments may stall or fail if not implemented with the right scope, use cases, data sources, architecture, expertise or staff size. Security and risk management leaders deploying a SIEM solution should follow this structured approach to ensure a successful implementation.